Grateful Thanks To United States

Chronicle (Levin), 6 April 1948, Page 5

Grateful Thanks To United States

Received Monday, 7 p.m. LONDON, April 5. . Gratitude and thankfulness are the keynote of national newspaper cornment on the release of Marshall aid, first shipments of which are expected to sail 011 April 5. The Tinies : ll' the Marshall plan founders, if the Coinnumist , wreckers have their wtty, it will be Europe's i'ault. Tlie task now i.s for Kuropean eountries do respond with equal eourage and vigour to Fnited States' groat gesture. Manchester (iuardian : Fnited States has risefi to the oceasion. It is now for tlie Western Kuropean nations to do no less. I)aily Telegraph : The unexpected rapidity with which Fongress approved the Kuropean reeovei'.v programme, has been due to the mounting teni])o of Russian aggression. Daily •■Ilerald : Tliough part of the Marshall aid will he on a loan bas-is, ] »a rt will be a i'ree gil't. The Marshall plan was not devised — as it has been aceused-~for the s])litting of Kurope. The aid was offered to all Kuropean nntions. It was Russia and her associates who refused to join.in and who proelaimed a doetrine of "two ealnps,'. The Daily Express maintained its view that Britain should he t.urned to the Empire instead of relying on Marshall aid and warned that Britain will have to pay a ^price" for the benefits received. The Fommunist Dailv Worker deelared that the adoption of the European reeovery programme "eoincides with the growth of a deliberatelv fostered war hysteria."